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The piers were a world apart from the city, a place for initiations and new experiences, for experimentation and self-invention, for exhibition and for looking.
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The Living Dead: Why Are Curators Putting Deceased Artists in Contemporary Art Shows?
The peculiar appearance of Forrest Bess, the “pseudo-hermaphrodite” painter, at the 2012 Whitney Biennial still stands out in my memory. The eleven paintings were vivid and haunting, and…
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Cruising the Waterfront
Painter and art historian Jonathan Weinberg remembers the crumbling Hudson River piers of the 1970s and '80s, a zone of gay cruising and maverick art projects, predating today's gentrification and new…
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